Python code can be understood by more than the person who originally wrote it.
Bollocks Bollocks Bollocks. As someone who has recently started working with a large code base in Python, I can assure you it is possible to write unreadable code in python.
Having Readable code depends entreily on the programmer who wrote the code and very little on the language they use.
I was talking about the service where Google puts their ads on my website and they pay me for clicks, not the service where google puts my adverts on their site and I pay them. Sorry.
I disagree with "advertising to people who want to use it's services for free"
I am providing space and views to google, who pay me in hard cash if someone clicks something. Therefore we both provide a service to the other; no freeloading is happening anywhere.
Therefore I would still see it as a reduction of service.
Probaly a fair point about the people who pay to get ad free searches arent going to read them anyway thought, but still in principle this would piss me off.
Salon.com is paid by Renault, to take an example, to show x views, or to get y click thrus. Therefore if salon chooses not to show the ads for some users it makes no odds, Renault will still get its x views or y clickthus in the end.
If salon.com was paid by Renault to put their ad on all pages and then salon didn't show the ad for certain users, Renault would complain, and rightly so - they've lost part of the service they paid for.
I as a web master provide advertising space for adverts on all my pages for all users; if google then only supply me with half a service I lose out.
Hear hear. A micropayment search service (ie $5 US gets you 500 searches) would be perfect as long as it provided some tangible benefit over the non-pay service. [Such as] suppressing any of those annoying "ads by Google" boxes you see everywhere.
Except those adverts make money for the websites they are hosted by. If Google didn't serve them for certain paid users, then I as a website owner would expect a share of the money.
Otherwise google are basically reducing the service they supply to me, and reducing my capability to make money from my website.
Is this maybe the kind of thing he was thinking about?
Its great; you write documentation in xml markup, and then you can run a host of tools to generate pdfs, webpages, text files... any format you want basically. And everything is taken care of for you; a contents page is generated automatically, all the text formating (bold, italic, headers) is done for you...
I see no reason why someone couldn't write a word processor to edit doctype; instead of applying bold, etc you would have menus to make selected text "A command line", "A file name", etc
I think Sun use it for a lot of their documentation; PHP and others use it for their web documentation.
Rubbish - Both A Car Dealer and a Website start up and declare themselves open for all members of the public to come in, browse around and buy if they want. If the actions of the public cause the company cost then tought; thats part of the cost of buisness. The Company should have considered this, planned for this and accepted this before even starting. To then sue becuase you get to much buisness is ridiculus.
And I'm sorry to sound Harsh, but this appliles to the small website owner who makes no cash to. They made a decision to set up a site at there cost with no profits and they have to live with it. If it then turns out to be the wrong one due to perfectly normal actions on the part of a web surfer (Surfing the web) they've got no-one to blame.
I'm not as Harsh as I sound. It would be nice if Slashdot offered to host mirrors for websites. But in my book, they in no way have a moral obligation to do so and the companys should defeinetly not be able to sue over this.
The teacher should at least have had the decency to sit the kid down and say "Look Son, I'd be happy to write something for you but first I've gotta tell you what I will write and why I will write it. You see, I believe... etc"
And have any studys been done to find out if it is actually lying, or if people simply dont count some things?
If you asked me how much milk I drink I would try to give you a estimate based on my best knowledge. But I'm willing to bet you would find me wrong if you checked my trash.
Scenario: A dealer does a fantastic deal on new car, but is a bit bad with publicity and noone knows. The local newspaper does a front page story; the next day the dealer is overwhelmed with thousands of customers and can't cope. Is it the newspapers fault?
An Author puts a item on the web. On a public Network. (Presumably) in the hope that people are going to come and read it. They cant then complain that people come and read it!
Maybe slashdot should take a copy of each page and host that on there servers. But they shouldn't do this automatically. A) Copyright issues B) Techincal issues with dynamic pages C) Original Author of page will not record hits; possible loss of revenue for them from there advertisers.
It would be nice if they offered, but Slashdot are within there right to operate as they do now.
I heard of people who had a party in a New York city metro train. They took over one carriage at the end of the train and partied all night, just going round and round the system. People who wanted to join the party just waited at a station for the train to come by. (It was a short line, half hour wait max.) and people who wanted to use the bathroom jumped out at a station near the end of the line then legged it to the other platform.
Up here in Fife, Scotland there has also been a rave in this disused nuclear buncker... click here
Another book reccomendation
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Einstein Unveiled
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· Score: 2, Informative
Driving Mr. Albert chronicles the adventures of an unlikely threesome--a freelance writer, an elderly pathologist, and Albert Einstein's brain--on a cross-country expedition intended to set the story of this specimen-cum-relic straight once and for all.
After Thomas Harvey performed Einstein's autopsy in 1955, he made off with the key body part. His claims that he was studying the specimen and would publish his findings never bore fruit, and the doctor fell from grace. The brain, though, became the subject of many an urban legend, and Harvey was transformed into a modern Robin Hood, having snatched neurological riches from the establishment and distributed them piecemeal to the curious and the faithful around the world.
...
Traversing America with Harvey and his sacred specimen, Paterniti seems to be awaiting enlightenment, much as Einstein did in his last days. But just as the great scientist failed to come up with a unifying theory, Paterniti's chronicle dissolves at times into overly sincere efforts to find importance where there may be none, and it walks a fine line between postmodern detachment and wide-eyed wonderment. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the book offers an engrossing portrait of postatomic America from what may be the ultimate late-20th-century road trip.
Redsherrif is a java applet so its loaded when you visit the webpage. Its not really, AFAIK, installed on your machine. So nothing to remove.
A person on the usenet thread refrenced claims Ad-Aware doesnt spot it.
>>Okay, that's fast and good. It isn't going to be >>cheap. > >Only, much Open Source Software, Linux is a good >example, tend to break this assumption; much to >the disgult of Big Bill.
Oh yeah? Anyone want to guess how much Linux and the accompanying GNU tools would cost if all the contributing progammers and evangulists like RMS and Linus Torvalds where paid a decent hourly rate?
But I'm betting the number of operaters needed went down, right? After all, x% of calls answered by computers, that x% of the people that can be fired!
If this fancy package works, not all syadmins will be out of a job. But some will. It will all depend on what your field of work is.
As my friend says: Even thought it takes less time to watch the FBI warnings on DVD's than it does to fastforward throught all the crap you get at the start of videos, its still somehow more annoying...
Slashdot Mirror
Bollocks Bollocks Bollocks. As someone who has recently started working with a large code base in Python, I can assure you it is possible to write unreadable code in python.
Having Readable code depends entreily on the programmer who wrote the code and very little on the language they use.
What a stupid thing to say. How can anyone claim to have a balanced view of an issue if they refuse to read any articles that oppose them?
I was replying to this post, where the poster said he would prefer it if he didn't.
(For more info)
I am providing space and views to google, who pay me in hard cash if someone clicks something. Therefore we both provide a service to the other; no freeloading is happening anywhere.
Therefore I would still see it as a reduction of service.
Probaly a fair point about the people who pay to get ad free searches arent going to read them anyway thought, but still in principle this would piss me off.
Salon.com is paid by Renault, to take an example, to show x views, or to get y click thrus. Therefore if salon chooses not to show the ads for some users it makes no odds, Renault will still get its x views or y clickthus in the end.
If salon.com was paid by Renault to put their ad on all pages and then salon didn't show the ad for certain users, Renault would complain, and rightly so - they've lost part of the service they paid for.
I as a web master provide advertising space for adverts on all my pages for all users; if google then only supply me with half a service I lose out.
Except those adverts make money for the websites they are hosted by. If Google didn't serve them for certain paid users, then I as a website owner would expect a share of the money.
Otherwise google are basically reducing the service they supply to me, and reducing my capability to make money from my website.
Its great; you write documentation in xml markup, and then you can run a host of tools to generate pdfs, webpages, text files ... any format you want basically. And everything is taken care of for you; a contents page is generated automatically, all the text formating (bold, italic, headers) is done for you ...
I see no reason why someone couldn't write a word processor to edit doctype; instead of applying bold, etc you would have menus to make selected text "A command line", "A file name", etc
I think Sun use it for a lot of their documentation; PHP and others use it for their web documentation.
And I'm sorry to sound Harsh, but this appliles to the small website owner who makes no cash to. They made a decision to set up a site at there cost with no profits and they have to live with it. If it then turns out to be the wrong one due to perfectly normal actions on the part of a web surfer (Surfing the web) they've got no-one to blame.
I'm not as Harsh as I sound. It would be nice if Slashdot offered to host mirrors for websites. But in my book, they in no way have a moral obligation to do so and the companys should defeinetly not be able to sue over this.
The teacher should at least have had the decency to sit the kid down and say "Look Son, I'd be happy to write something for you but first I've gotta tell you what I will write and why I will write it. You see, I believe ... etc"
And have any studys been done to find out if it is actually lying, or if people simply dont count some things?
If you asked me how much milk I drink I would try to give you a estimate based on my best knowledge. But I'm willing to bet you would find me wrong if you checked my trash.
Scenario: A dealer does a fantastic deal on new car, but is a bit bad with publicity and noone knows. The local newspaper does a front page story; the next day the dealer is overwhelmed with thousands of customers and can't cope. Is it the newspapers fault?
An Author puts a item on the web. On a public Network. (Presumably) in the hope that people are going to come and read it. They cant then complain that people come and read it!
Maybe slashdot should take a copy of each page and host that on there servers. But they shouldn't do this automatically.
A) Copyright issues
B) Techincal issues with dynamic pages
C) Original Author of page will not record hits; possible loss of revenue for them from there advertisers.
It would be nice if they offered, but Slashdot are within there right to operate as they do now.
Up here in Fife, Scotland there has also been a rave in this disused nuclear buncker ... click here
From that page:
Driving Mr. Albert chronicles the adventures of an unlikely threesome--a freelance writer, an elderly pathologist, and Albert Einstein's brain--on a cross-country expedition intended to set the story of this specimen-cum-relic straight once and for all.
After Thomas Harvey performed Einstein's autopsy in 1955, he made off with the key body part. His claims that he was studying the specimen and would publish his findings never bore fruit, and the doctor fell from grace. The brain, though, became the subject of many an urban legend, and Harvey was transformed into a modern Robin Hood, having snatched neurological riches from the establishment and distributed them piecemeal to the curious and the faithful around the world.
Traversing America with Harvey and his sacred specimen, Paterniti seems to be awaiting enlightenment, much as Einstein did in his last days. But just as the great scientist failed to come up with a unifying theory, Paterniti's chronicle dissolves at times into overly sincere efforts to find importance where there may be none, and it walks a fine line between postmodern detachment and wide-eyed wonderment. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the book offers an engrossing portrait of postatomic America from what may be the ultimate late-20th-century road trip.
Redsherrif is a java applet so its loaded when you visit the webpage. Its not really, AFAIK, installed on your machine. So nothing to remove. A person on the usenet thread refrenced claims Ad-Aware doesnt spot it.
6 Security flaws reported here.
>>Okay, that's fast and good. It isn't going to be
>>cheap.
>
>Only, much Open Source Software, Linux is a good
>example, tend to break this assumption; much to
>the disgult of Big Bill.
Oh yeah? Anyone want to guess how much Linux and the accompanying GNU tools would cost if all the contributing progammers and evangulists like RMS and Linus Torvalds where paid a decent hourly rate?
If this fancy package works, not all syadmins will be out of a job. But some will. It will all depend on what your field of work is.
And whats the diffrence between your scheme and Micorosoft .NET with a finger print scanner attached?
...)
(Not knocking MS, just saying
Oh yes Please! I really really want all my private email posted on usenet for the world to read! When can we start this?
Why blame the EU for voter apathy? Its not there fault. Its the voters fault. They could go and find out info about there MEP's if they wanted.
How is this a "follow-up" in any way? The rantings of one man and the workings of the European/British Parliment are completely unrelated.
>NOT ELECTED BY THE PUBLIC
Yes they are. Havent you heard of a MEP Before?
(Member of European Parliment. Britians elected representatives are called MP's: Members of Parliment.)
As my friend says: Even thought it takes less time to watch the FBI warnings on DVD's than it does to fastforward throught all the crap you get at the start of videos, its still somehow more annoying ...
Hmm, I've heard enought stories about the wireless mics in theatre and actors forgetting to take them off when they go to the bathroom ....